Out Of Sight - Part 1

This collection of videos takes in Storthes Hall, Stanley Royd, Meanwood Park Colony, New Church Hospital, Carstairs and former service user experiences..

Documentary about the introduction of the Community Care Act in April 1993 and the closure of many of Britain's older mental hospitals. This report reveals how thousands of people, who were locked away in such institutions for long periods of their lives, were never mentally ill in the first place. They were incarcerated for being deaf or pregnant or simply unwanted, but, once committed they were automatically deemed insane, and had no way of escaping. Includes the personal testimonies of a number of victims of this cruel and outdated system.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• out of sight
• meanwood park
• stanley royd
• ect
• storthes hall
• stokepark colony
• newchurch hospital
• carstairs
• stolen lives

[stealthpiccasso]

In part one Jeffrey Abbott is featured, Jeffrey spent 22 years in Meanwood wrongly diagnosed as a mental defective.

He was in fact deaf and of above intelligence, it was that very intelligence that kept him sane for all those years.

Executive officer Squires took him after his father signed the papers required to remove him to Meanwood.

He was eventually rescued by Martin Smith, Jeffrey also features in part 5.

[milzeh]

These days the really mental ill walk the streets.

[tessrags70]

Lots of people came out of long term hospitals only to die. Lots of those I was involved in bringing out died of cancer. Im not sure if this was partly due to the drugs they had been exposed to whilst imprisoned in the institutions.

[lexichronicle2]

@tessrags70 "Lots of those I was involved in bringing out died of cancer."

Interesting! Was this in the US? As numerous experiments to do with radiation where done on the mentally ill.

More up to date. Eli Lilly have a newer anti-psychotic out, with a member of company saying "if I saw a guy sucking thru cigarettes, I'd suspect he was taking it". it interacts with nicotine, which not only seems to make them want more nicotine but also blocks the antipsychotic property. They were mass sued.

[mashamorgan]

care in the community has left so many of these inpatients in a worse position, I see it every day !

[geoffdoor]

i love this film - i can't wait for the fucking sequel - are the people you mum and dad and family AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAH

[kitty3309]

'Popped into hospital' !!!! 

[donniecatalano]

In my work experience in a mental hospital I had the chance of talking to a guy who in his youth has been tied to a radiator in an isolated room, fed on a tray that the nurses pushed at him with a brush, cleaned and washed once a week....

[SuperRach101]

@stealthpiccasso - has there ever been an offical government inquiry into why people were treated like this and has the government ever apologized??

[MassDeportation]

Innocent people are always put upon in many different ways. Involuntary commitment which is what its called in america is used for coersion, to silence people, for money for the hospital and its staff, and for SPORT which means some people like part of, or the whole procedure of getting an innocent person locked up. Like when YOU assholes assault an innocent person, call the police on them and frame them. None of this is uncommon.

[watchensee]

They're locking up normal minded people, now that's crazy!

[branwolf1980]

My great aunt was in storthes hall for being sen she died on her 21st birthday rip xxx